Italian Wedding Soup

Italian Wedding Soup may sound like a kind of dish that is served during Italian Weddings well it’s not, the term came from the Italian words “minestra maritata” which means “married soup”, a term used to reference the flavour this soup gives by combining or marrying greens and meat into a wonderful concoction that is called the Italian Wedding Soup.

Though the name specifically states Italian do you know that this dish also is popular in Toledo, Spain? The key differences are that the Spanish version has more meat like most Spanish stews.

This dish is a very popular in the United States, where it is common to see in the menus of most Italian restaurants. It’s a dish that mainly contains vegetables and meat; for vegetables the one mainly used are spinach, endive, escarole, kale and/or lettuce; for meat it is usually meatballs and/or sausages. Pasta is also used like orzo, fusilli, cavatelli or pastina then cooked in a clear chicken-based broth served with a generous amount of parmesan cheese.